CPU Says 100%

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suddenly Task Manager is saying CPU use is at 100%. My CPU monitor shows it is not. Any idea why this would be?
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Hi,

did you just do any updates?, if you did, it is most likely the built-in Antimalware app doing a sweep after it gets updated!. After a restart, see if it still running high and get back to us please. ;)
 
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Went away. I did no updates I know of. Just odd it said simply the Task Manager was 40%, and other open apps showing much higher % than normal. So, not sure what that all was. Thanks.
 
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May have been a service running in the background. That would have shown up on the bottom half of the task manager under Windows Processes.
 
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Or if you click on the CPU load you can sort it according to the load. Then you will know what uses so much CPU. I hesitate to take a guess that it might be the Defender scanning.....

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